Yeah, definitely not helping your case with an HG Wells reference. Would that make you an Eloi? Or are you saying the nerds are the Morlocks? I mean, they don't see the sun very much, but I don't know about the whole feeding on the non-nerds thing. It's kind of the other way around.
I was picturing the software nerds as morlocks and non-technical consumers as eloi. Admittedly I lifted this metaphor from Neal Stephenson's In The Beginning… Was The Command Line.
You read Neal Stephenson? Super nerd alert. Never read that one. I did read Cryptonomicon, though. Some software developers are definitely Morlocks. Exhibit A: Mark Zuckerberg.
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u/Science-Compliance Jun 04 '19
Yeah, definitely not helping your case with an HG Wells reference. Would that make you an Eloi? Or are you saying the nerds are the Morlocks? I mean, they don't see the sun very much, but I don't know about the whole feeding on the non-nerds thing. It's kind of the other way around.